I'd like to lay to rest the strawman of associating anti-Vaccine sentiment with Andrew Wakefield. The problems were well known in the early part of the 20th century, hence the book given above, and as for more modern times, Dr. Lucija Tomljenovic noted in a recent paper that "Deliberately concealing information from parents for the sole purpose of getting them to comply with an “official” vaccination schedule could be considered as a form of ethical violation or misconduct. Official documents obtained from the UK Department of Health (DH) and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) reveal that the British health authorities have been engaging in such practice for the last 30 years, apparently for the sole purpose of protecting the national vaccination program." and "Here I present the documentation which appears to show that the JCVI made continuous efforts to withhold critical data on severe adverse reactions and contraindications to vaccinations to both parents and health practitioners in order to reach overall vaccination rates which they deemed were necessary for “herd immunity”, a concept which with regards to vaccination, and contrary to prevalent beliefs, does not rest on solid scientific evidence as will be explained. As a result of such vaccination policy promoted by the JCVI and the DH, many children have been vaccinated without their parents being disclosed the critical information about demonstrated risks of serious adverse reactions, one that the JCVI appeared to have been fully aware of. It would also appear that, by withholding this information, the JCVI/DH neglected the right of individuals to make an informed consent concerning vaccination. By doing so, the JCVI/DH may have violated not only International Guidelines for Medical Ethics." and "The transcripts of the JCVI meetings also show that some of the Committee members had extensive ties to pharmaceutical companies and that the JCVI frequently co-operated with vaccine manufacturers on strategies aimed at boosting vaccine uptake. Some of the meetings at which such controversial items were discussed were not intended to be publicly available, as the transcripts were only released later, through the Freedom of Information Act (FOI). These particular meetings are denoted in the transcripts as “commercial in confidence”, and reveal a clear and disturbing lack of transparency, as some of the information was removed from the text (i.e., the names of the participants) prior to transcript release under the FOI section at the JCVI website.": http://www.ecomed.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/3-tomljenovic.pdf – see more here: http://www.ecomed.org.uk/publications/the-health-hazards-of-disease-prevention also of interest is the article in the journal "Inorganic Biochemistry" entitled "Do aluminum vaccine adjuvants contribute to the rising prevalence of autism?": http://omsj.org/reports/tomljenovic%202011.pdf
See also the article, "Hepatitis B vaccination of male neonates and autism diagnosis, NHIS 1997-2002.", which states, " Findings suggest that U.S. male neonates vaccinated with the hepatitis B vaccine prior to 1999 (from vaccination record) had a threefold higher risk for parental report of autism diagnosis compared to boys not vaccinated as neonates during that same time period. Nonwhite boys bore a greater risk.": http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21058170
See also, "A positive association found between autism prevalence and childhood vaccination uptake across the U.S. population.", the abstract of which states, "Although individuals probably have a genetic predisposition to develop autism, researchers suspect that one or more environmental triggers are also needed. One of those triggers might be the battery of vaccinations that young children receive. Using regression analysis and controlling for family income and ethnicity, the relationship between the proportion of children who received the recommended vaccines by age 2 years and the prevalence of autism (AUT) or speech or language impairment (SLI) in each U.S. state from 2001 and 2007 was determined. A positive and statistically significant relationship was found: The higher the proportion of children receiving recommended vaccinations, the higher was the prevalence of AUT or SLI. A 1% increase in vaccination was associated with an additional 680 children having AUT or SLI.": http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21623535
See also "Serological Association of Measles Virus and Human Herpesvirus-6 with Brain Autoantibodies in Autism". The authors of the study note: "As described here, the overall levels of measles antibody and HHV-6 antibody were not significantly elevated in autistic children but a high proportion (85%) of them had positive measles antibody titers. This was an excellent rate of seroconversion post-MMR immunization since virtually all subjects in the study had their MMR immunizations and none had any history of wild-type measles virus infection.":
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0090122998945883
Other relevant commentary comes from "Phenotypic expression of autoimmune autistic disorder (AAD): a major subset of autism." – from the abstract, we find that "Many autistic children harbored brain myelin basic protein autoantibodies and elevated levels of antibodies to measles virus and measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine.": http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19758536
See also "Abnormal measles-mumps-rubella antibodies and CNS autoimmunity in children with autism.": http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12145534
Thus the association of all of this with Wakefield, and the ensuing attack, is a strawman, as evidence persists in spite of him. much corroborating research has confirmed the sentiment of Andrew Wakefield – some has been given, but the following, of interest, is further corroboration, offering more studies. This is from an "alternative media" website, but the documentation is valid nonetheless: http://www.thelibertybeacon.com/2013/06/21/new-published-study-verifies-andrew-wakefields-research-on-autism-again-mmr-vaccine-causes-autism/
Here is another such post, that touches on some relevant issues in this, that is of interest: http://skepticdenialism.blogspot.com/2011/12/evidence-1.html
For 81 studies linking vaccines and autism, see the following: http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2007/06/no-evidence-of-any-link.html
For more on vaccines, including vaccine failures and vaccines as vectors of disease, the following directory of studies is of relevance: http://www.greenmedinfo.com/anti-therapeutic-action/vaccination-all

It should in closing be noted that Dr. Sherri Tenpenny has shown, using CDC documents, that the decline in diseases was irrelevant to the rate at which vaccines were being introduced, that the diseases declined because of sanitation and other factors. A summary of her text "Saying NO To Vaccines" notes:
"Most people are not aware that they should be asking the question - Should I vaccinate?

Since the first mandatory vaccination law was passed in the U.S. (1903), the belief in vaccination has been promoted by a pro-vaccine government, a pro-vaccine school system and a pro-vaccine western allopathic medicine industry.

The government:

The U.S. government is the largest purchaser of vaccines in the country. In fact, nearly 30 percent of the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) annual budget is composed of purchasing vaccines and ensuring vaccination is completed for every child in the country.
Laws have been passed to protect vaccine manufactures from liability while at the same time, state laws require parents to inject their children with up to 100 vaccination antigens prior to entering school. If a vaccine injury – or death – occurs after a vaccine, parents cannot sue the doctor, the drug company or the government; they required to petition the Vaccine Court for damages, which can take years and is often denied.
The schools:

Each state has school vaccination laws which require children of appropriate age to be vaccinated for several communicable diseases. State vaccination laws mandate that children be vaccinated prior to being allowed to attend public or private schools. Failure to vaccinate children can result in children being denied from attending school, civil fines and criminal penalties against their parents or guardians. What schools don’t tell parents is that in every state, an exemption exists allowing parents to legally refuse vaccines and allowing children to attend school.
The medical industry:

The medical industry advocates vaccines, often demanding that parents vaccinate their children or be dismissed from the medical practice. A sizable portion of a pediatrician’s income is derived from insurance reimbursement for vaccinations. The ever-expanding vaccination schedule that includes increasingly more expensive vaccines has been a source of increased revenues for vaccinating doctors. Unfortunately, many doctors have not read the package insert for the vaccines which they so readily inject into their little patients. They are not aware of the full range of chemicals coming through that needle. As a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, brother, sister or legal guardian you have the right to know…and to choose. Parents are busy. They don’t have time to spend hundreds of hours researching the medical literature about problems associated with vaccines. Saying No To Vaccines does the work for you.
Fully referenced and indexed, you will refer to this book time and again to find support for your decisions about vaccinating.

Saying No to Vaccines
Dr. Tenpenny provides an in-depth examination of the adverse reactions to vaccines. With incisive reasoning and over 8,000 hours of research, "Saying No To Vaccines" is an eye-opening educational guide which will give parents and adults the information they need to have confidence when they say no to vaccines. Citations taken directly from CDC documents and respected peer-reviewed journals are facts not easily refuted by conventional pro-vaccination dogma.

Over 200 + footnotes. You can look up the actual reference documents for yourself!": https://web.archive.org/web/20120422164403/http://www.sayingnotovaccines.com/

But it’s not just that they are unnecessary. They are quite often deadly. Maurice Hilleman, the developer of Merck’s vaccine program, admitted that the polio vaccine was deliberately contaminated with the viral carcinogen SV40. Here is some reliable peer-reviewed literature on the SV-40 issue: http://www.greenmedinfo.com/disease/simian-virus-40-sv40
Included in that are the articles:
"Some oral poliovirus vaccines were contaminated with infectious SV40 after 1961." - PMID 16288015
"Identification of the oncogenic substance in rhesus monkey kidney cell culture as simian virus 40." - PMID 13889129
– and (this is an important one) “Specific antibodies reacting with simian virus 40 capsid protein mimotopes in serum samples from healthy blood donors.”, the abstract of which has some interesting points. It notes: “Simian virus 40 (SV40), a small DNA tumor virus, was inadvertently administered to human populations with the use of contaminated vaccines. SV40 sequences have mainly been detected in healthy individuals and cancer patients using polymerase chain reaction techniques. However, some studies have failed to reveal the presence of SV40 in human specimens. These conflicting results indicate the need for new research to verify whether SV40 is circulating in humans. Mimotopes from SV40 structural peptides were tested to investigate for specific reactions to human sera antibodies. An indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay with synthetic peptides from SV40 viral capsid proteins 1-2-3 (VPs 1-2-3) was set up and employed to test 855 serum samples from healthy blood donors. Data from immunologic assays indicate that serum antibodies against SV40 VP mimotopes are detectable, although with a low titer, in blood donors 18 to 65 years old. The overall prevalence of serum samples that reacted with the 2 SV40 VP peptides was 18%. The strong points for this novel method include the simplicity of its approach and the potential to discriminate between SV40-specific antibody responses and to draw correlations between responses to the 2 independent SV40 peptides. These data suggest that SV40, or a yet undetected closely related polyomavirus, is circulating in human populations, but with lower prevalence than that of the ubiquitous BK and JC human polyomaviruses.”: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22387152/
Start with PMID
12798456, “Simian virus 40 in human cancers”, which concludes: “These results establish that SV40 is associated significantly with brain tumors, bone cancers, malignant mesothelioma, and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Studies are needed to assess current prevalence of SV40 infections.”: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/12798456/

Further research, looking at the footnotes of some of the studies mentioned, will reveal other important items, like “Simian virus 40, poliovaccines and human tumors: a review of recent developments.”, which notes, at the beginning of the abstract, “Recently, wild-type SV40 and/or DNA sequences indistinguishable from SV40 have been detected in specific types of human tumors: ependymoma and choroid plexus tumors, mesothelioma, osteosarcoma and sarcoma. The same tumor types will develop in hamsters after injection with SV40.”: http://www.nature.com/onc/journal/v15/n16/abs/1201375a.html

Also of relevance is PMID 15172980,”Presence of simian virus 40 DNA sequences in human lymphoid and hematopoietic malignancies and their relationship to aberrant promoter methylation of multiple genes.” which states, in the abstract: “The simian polyoma virus SV40 has been detected in specific human tumors including non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas, although a causative role for the virus has not been convincingly demonstrated. Aberrant methylation of CpG islands in promoter regions is a frequent method of silencing tumor suppressor genes (TSGs) in cancers and may be induced by oncogenic viruses. We investigated the relationship between the presence of SV40 or EBV DNA sequences and the methylation profiles for 10 TSGs in 90 cases of non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas/leukemias and 56 control tissues. SV40 sequences were present in 33/90 (37%) non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas/leukemias, and EBV was present in 11/42 (26%) of non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas. We found a highly significant correlation between the presence of SV40 and methylation of seven genes (P values, 0.006 to <0.0001). In lymphomas, there was no relationship between EBV and methylation. Oncogenic viruses and methylation were rarely present in control tissues. We investigated methylation of the same 10 TSGs in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from a healthy volunteer infected with EBV or EBV and SV40. Promoter methylation of CDH1 and CDH13 were noted in dual SV40- and EBV-infected PBMC, and these two genes were also highly significantly correlated to the presence of SV40 sequences in tumors. SV40 infection also resulted in appearance of the lymphoma/leukemia-specific marker, methylated SHP1. Methylation was completely absent in uninfected and EBV-infected PBMC. Our results demonstrate that the presence of SV40 in hematological malignancies is associated with promoter methylation of TSGs and that in all probability, the virus plays a role in tumor pathogenesis.": http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/15172980

The following article notes: http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/cdc-disappears’-page-linking-polio-vaccines-cancer-causing-viruses1
"SV-40 has a well-known mechanism of carcinogenicity. This virus suppresses the transcriptional properties of the tumor-suppressing p53 protein in humans [this mechanism of action is verified in the abstract of this: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/15015494/%5D, a gene product that has been described as "the guardian of the genome" because of its critical role in preventing genome instability and cancer initiation.[1]When p53 is disabled, programmed cell death (apoptosis) and cell cycle arrest is rendered dysfunctional, leading to uncontrolled (immortalized) cell proliferation, and tumor formation. Animal research provides experimental confirmation for the tumor-forming properties of SV40,[2] which lends support to viewing the presence of SV40 in various human tumors as a causal connection and not a merely coincidental correlation.[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9][10] [11] [12]

Also, the CDC's claim that SV40 has not been proven "a cause" is disingenuous, as no cancer can be considered to be a result of a singular cause. SV40 is a well-known cofactor in the pathogenesis of some tumors,[13] [14] and therefore should not be dismissed or minimized to the point of being perceived irrelevant."

Perhaps the most important article is PMID 10472327 – "Cancer risk associated with simian virus 40 contaminated polio vaccine.": http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/10472327/
I will now excerpt from the entire abstract, as it really sums everything up:
"Abstract
BACKGROUND: The presence of SV40 in monkey cell cultures used in the preparation of the polio vaccine from 1955 through 1961 is well documented. Investigations have consistently demonstrated the oncogenic behavior of SV40 in animal models. Early epidemiologic studies were inadequate in demonstrating an increase in cancer incidence associated with contaminated vaccine. Recently, investigators have provided persuasive evidence that SV40 is present in human ependymomas, choroid plexus tumors, bone tumors, and mesotheliomas, however, the etiologic role of the virus in tumorigenesis has not been established.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Using data from SEER, we analyzed the incidence of brain tumors, bone tumors, and mesotheliomas from 1973-1993 and the possible relationship of these tumors with the administration of the SV40 contaminated vaccine.
RESULTS: Our analysis indicates increased rates of ependymomas (37%), osteogenic sarcomas (26%), other bone tumors (34%) and mesothelioma (90%) among those in the exposed as compared to the unexposed birth cohort.
CONCLUSIONS: These data suggest that there may be an increased incidence of certain cancers among the 98 million persons exposed to contaminated polio vaccine in the U.S.; further investigations are clearly justified."
See, also (related to the initial post) some interesting relations with autism and SV-40 prevalence in the article "Association of autism with polyomavirus infection in postmortem brains.", which states, "BKV, JCV, and SV40 combined are significantly more frequent among autistic patients compared to controls (67% versus 23%, respectively; P < .05)": http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20345322


The Cancer rate has skyrocketed from these artificially introduced chemical toxins: http://tinyurl.com/6p46gjl

Condemning facts proving the anthropogenic origins of AIDS come from the Tuesday, July 1, 1969 transcript of the hearings of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, 91st Congress, First Session Subcommittee on Department of Defense, Part 5. See also "Polio, hepatitis B and AIDS: an integrative theory on a possible vaccine induced pandemic", the abstract of which reads: "The hypothesis that simian virus 40 (SV40) infected polio vaccines may be linked to the evolution of acquired immunodeficiency disorder (AIDS), and certain cancers, has been advanced. Most recently, investigators discussed the likelihood of gene-reshuffling following SV40 infection as a precursor to acquired immune dysfunction. Findings of recent SV40 infections in four children born after 1982 suggest infections were transmitted vertically along gene lines. Earlier observations proved activation of a retrovirus gene by a hepatitis B virus (HBV) protein. This paper proposes a new integrative theory on the origin of AIDS. It advances the possibility of genetic recombinations with oncogene activation by HBV involving simian viruses that likely infected polio vaccinated blood donors to the initial hepatitis B (HB) vaccine trials conducted on gay men in New York City and Ugandan Blacks in the early to mid-1970s. The socio-economic and even military ramifications associated with this politically challenging thesis are discussed.": http://www.medical-hypotheses.com/article/S0306-9877(00)91171-X/abstract

Much of the approved narrative concerning the origin of AIDS is refuted in the abstract of PMID 15525322, “AIDS as a zoonosis? Confusion over the origin of the virus and the origin of the epidemics.”, which states: “Based on findings demonstrating the simian ancestry of HIV, AIDS has been reported to be a zoonosis. However, this theory has never been proved and must seriously be questioned. Several arguments show that HIV-AIDS is not a zoonosis. (i) If AIDS were a zoonosis, there must be evidence of AIDS being directly acquired from an animal species, as is rabies, a disease that is directly acquired from animals. (ii) Despite long-term and frequent human exposure to SIV-infected monkeys in Africa, only 11 cross-species transmission events are known, and only four of these have resulted in significant human-to-human transmission, generating HIV-1 groups M and O and HIV-2 groups A and B. The closest relatives of SIVcpz (HIV-1 group N) and of SIVsm (HIV-2 groups C-H) are extremely rare, with only six HIV-1 group N-infected patients and only single individuals known to be infected by HIV-2 groups C-H. SIV, while capable of cross-species transmission, is thus poorly adapted for disease and epidemic spread. If AIDS were a zoonosis that is capable of significant human-to-human spread, there would be a plethora of founder subtypes and groups. (iii) Human exposure to SIV is thousands of years old, but AIDS emerged only in the 20th century. If AIDS were a zoonosis that spread into the human population, it would have spread to the West during slave trade. (iv) Experimental transmission of SIVs to different species of monkeys is often well controlled by the new host, showing that the virus and not the disease is transmitted. Therefore, we conclude that cross-species transmission of SIV does not in itself constitute the basis for a zoonosis. Transmission per se is not the major requirement for the generation of the AIDS epidemic. All HIVs do derive from simian species, but AIDS does not qualify as a zoonosis and this explanation cannot in itself account for the origin of AIDS epidemic. It is important to distinguish AIDS from true zoonoses (e.g. rabies) because research is needed to understand the processes by which animal viruses cause sustained human-to-human transmission, epidemics and even pandemics. Much is known about emerging viruses, but almost nothing is known about emerging viral diseases.”: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15525322

Contamination of the Polio vaccine has been linked to AIDS, not by some “crank” or “fringe nut” (more logical fallacies are at play with that choice of words to dismiss somebody), but by the CBC investigative report “Witness”, which looks at the historical controversy surrounding this issue, and, towards some end, still raises some frightening issues (in this case, particular attention is given to the Koprowski vaccine): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZs1V8mpcoY